[Elecraft] KPA-1500 failed!

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft]

Hi Peter,

I'm sorry to hear about this failure and deeply apologize for the problem. 

I'll follow up with another email to you to diagnose what actually happened. 

In any case we'll deal with it quickly and get your amp repaired asap.

Eric
elecraft.com
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> On Feb 16, 2019, at 6:28 AM, <lists at w2irt.net> <lists at w2irt.net> wrote:
> 
> I was operating in the ARRL-CW contest this morning and on 20m, with a 1.2:1
> SWR on the Yagi, all of a sudden I saw my power drop to about 450-500W with
> about 40W in. Worked a few stations but not as easily as when I turned
> everything on this morning. Switched over to phone and made a few contacts.
> Audio is fine barefoot with 100W out of the K3s-which suffered blown finals
> itself during CQWW SSB last fall, but with the amp in I got reports that my
> audio was badly distorted. 
> 
> Before I send it in, is there anything I should look at or any diagnostics I
> can easily perform? For the cost of this, I'd have thought protection would
> have kicked in to prevent anything untoward from happening. I'm in complete
> disbelief, to be honest.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------
> 73 and Good DX
> Peter, W2IRT
> 
> 
> 
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